Marilyn Ferguson, Best-selling Author of the Aquarian Conspiracy Dies at 70

Marilyn Ferguson, whose best-selling book “The Aquarian Conspiracy” helped establish the New Age movement by tying together its disparate threads, has died. She was 70.

Ferguson died Oct. 19 at her home in western Riverside County. She is believed to have died of a heart attack, her son, Eric, told the Los Angeles Times.

“The Aquarian Conspiracy,” published in 1980, was the first comprehensive analysis of the various unconnected efforts – such as scientists investigating biofeedback, midwives running alternative birthing centers and a Christian evangelist promoting meditation – that would coalesce into the New Age movement

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Do you remember your reaction when you first heard about or read Marilyn Ferguson’s The Aquarian Conspiracy?

For me, it was a pivotal moment in my life. I hadn’t even read her book yet, just read a blurb for it, but the information was absolutely galvanizing. Until that moment, I did not know there were other people all over the world who were meditating regularly, birthing alternatively and using natural as well as conventional medical solutions.

What about you? Do you remember how much her book changed your life?